Adrenaline-6 released – Base game/activation no longer needed!

Adrenaline, one of the most popular pieces of software for the PSVita/PSTV, got updated so that everybody could use it! Thanks to Adrenaline-6, you can now use Adrenaline (a.k.a the infamous ePSP hack for HENkaku-enabled Vitas/PSTVs) even if you haven’t activated your device (or have a basegame).

What’s Adrenaline?

This ePSP hack is one of the biggest reasons for which you should get a PSVita/PSTV running 3.60. It has the following features:

PSP ISO/CSO support so you can virtually play all dumped PSP games. You can dump your own legally-owned games!

PSX game support (via PSX2PSP) with sound support.

Support for PSP plugins, even CXMB works!

Ability to use ux0,ur0 and uma0 as the partition where your PSP files are located.

Full XMB so you could get the authentic PSP experience.

Homebrews that need 64MB of RAM (i.e ones that need a PSP Slim/2000+) are supported since unlike with other ePSP hacks, with Adrenaline, 64MB is allocated to the PSP emulator.

Now, you don’t even need activation or a base game to use it.

Many other features including save states and screen filters.

What got updated/changed in Adrenaline-6?

This is what got updated/changed in Adrenaline-6:

To use Adrenaline, you don’t need an activated PSTV/Vita and a base game! This means that you could use Adrenaline on virtually any PSVita/PSTV on FW 3.60.

Uma0 can now be used as the partition where your PSP files are located (Memory stick location becomes uma0:/pspemu). imc0: can now also be used.

Using uma0 as your memory stick location!

Support for longer ISO file names got added.

Some bugs were fixed and the core was updated.

You get a bubble for Adrenaline with a custom theme when you install it.

The installation process got changed and now you must install a VPK to install/update Adrenaline. The Network Update function doesn’t work when trying to update from Adrenaline-5.1 so you must install Adrenaline-6 manually. The 6.61 PBP gets downloaded from the new installer so you need to be connected to the internet to install Adrenaline-6.

There are two important release notes to read before installing:

Add “ux0:app/PSPEMUCFW/sce_module/adrenaline_kernel.skprx” to the *KERNEL section of taiHEN’s config.txt and reboot your device. It’s recommended you do this since Adrenaline-6’s installer didn’t want to open after downloading the PSP firmware 6.61 file for me before adding this line. I also removed the line that pointed to adrenaline.skprx from the config.txt file to avoid any conflicts.

If you had Adrenaline already installed, it is advised you remove or rename “ux0:adrenaline” to avoid any conflicts.

(Extra) Save states from older versions can no longer be used so make sure you do a proper save before updating Adrenaline.

Conclusion

After reading the release notes above, you can download and install the VPK from the link below. If you have any issues report them to “TheFlow” on GitHub/Twitter in a civil manner.

Link to donate to “TheFlow” for his great work (DIRECTLY COPIED FROM HIS TWITTER PAGE/ WOLOLO DOESN’T BENEFIT IN *ANY* WAY FROM THIS. I personally believe that “TheFlow” deserves some donations for his work but remember, Adrenaline is free and open-source software so you shouldn’t feel forced to donate!): https://t.co/tZIXilWvoD

I'm a girl that's liked technology from day 1. Mostly interested in the PSVita/PSP scene but I've always modded my stuff when it's possible, that is :)Contact me via DM at @KawaiiAuroraA on Twitter if you have any questions/concerns about my articles or if you have any article requests.

Works fine for me as it did on Adrenaline-5.1. It’s important to note that the ‘memory stick location’ defaults to ux0: when installing Adrenaline-6 so you should check if you have the incorrect ‘memory stick location’ and try again.

I figured it out. It turns out it wasn’t an issue with Categories plugin at all. It was a specific iso that was causing the error. After removing the iso (which was Metal Gear Ac!d) the error no longer appears.

Just posting to let people know that having to open adrenaline twice despite adding the line of text is an sd2vita issue. Using a normal ps vita memorycard and adding the line of text adrenaline loads up fine by opening it only once.

OK I think I got it, the reason for the double boot thing is because its a kernel plugin that I assuem you are all placeing in ux0 which is your SD, the problem here is that kernel plugins are loaded before the SD is set as ux0 so adrenaline’s plugins do not load.

This was a problem with the other versions as well not just v6 BTW and the solution there was just move the adrenaline plugins into ur0 and point the config to them there.

I’m sure they just use what they have available. Whether that’s a collection of links, or more likely, a collection of images on their server, collected at some point I guess before 2013. That’s what you’d do in a job/project like this. Anyway, I find this whole “Aurora is The_Zett” persuit to be a strange sort of fascinatation, too.

I’m not exactly sure what you lot are talking about here with reused pictures/links.

Most of my article pictures are taken straight off my PSVita minutes before I write my articles. As for links, I copy the relevant links which, to my knowledge at least, are not from ages ago since they mostly link to new releases/discussions.

I also was not aware that The_Zett used an Ika Musume CXMB theme on his PSVita but that doesn’t matter as I only use the theme because ‘Squid Girl’ is one of my favourite anime.

I Finally Wiped out /ux0:/pspemu and re-installed from scratch. After re-installing I started to add all folders, games, saves, themes, and plugins. I found out that it isn’t the CSO that was causing my issue. The issue that was causing my Error Code: c1-2858-3 was the CXMB CFW Plugin for Custom Themes.

ms0:/cxmb/cxmb.prx 1 VIA: /ux0:/pspemu/sepluginsvsh.txt

Removing the ms0 in the text, and replaced it with ux0 gave me a PSP Boot Screen. Now the Problem is the CXMB Themes do not show in the menu in the Themes nor does switching it on/off Recovery Menu work.

I tried mixing up different Url’s for the CXMB but have not concluded it to work in any mixed order. Re-adding the original url into the TXT gave me the error back.

Just get the right cxmb and replace it. Make sure to turn off Sony Boot Logo in Recovery Menu. Boot into Recovery Menu by Hold the RIGHT Trigger right after you boot into Adrenaline 6. You can Disable the cmxb from there to check if it isn’t the cxmb that’s causing your error code: c1-2858-1

Thanks for the new version! Anyone who is having butthurt problems i suggest you delete the adrenaline that was already installed using the easyinstaller then after install the newest vpk from the flow and your problem is no longer. Halloween is around the corner then Thanksgiving and Christmas so remember to buy the flow a beer or two since it’s his work he is sharing with the world!

As long as you’re on the right PSVita Firmware(3.60). If you’re below 3.60 you can find the TUT on here to get you safely to 3.60 as long as you take heath in the instructions. If you’re over the 3.60 firmware threshold, then you’re SOL for now.

I don’t understand why this is so popular, I mean good work on the devs working hard on it but come on psp games are old now and its easy to grab a psp and hack it these days for less than $10….and PS1 games…seriously? lol. Meh…each to their own I guess. My orignal psp and ps1 was hacked long ago so I guess I was just burnt out on psp/ps1 games…shrugs. (not bashing, was just generally curious how this plugin is so popular over the rest)